![]() We don’t find any word that could be a reference to “the zodiac” in 1.27-28, or in any of the surrounding context. When the Sun is in the five signs starting from Scorpio, the days and nights change in the opposite way. When the Sun is in the five signs starting from Taurus, the days grow longer and nights which grow shorter, month by month. Hrasati ca māsi māsy ekaikā ghaṭikā rātriṣu. Yadā vṛṣabhādiṣu pañcasu ca rāśiṣu carati When the Sun is in Aries and Libra, the days and nights are equal. Yadā meṣa-tulayor vartate tadāho-rātrāṇi samānāni bhavanti The days and nights grow longer and shorter, revealing which of the signs – Capricorn, etc. Makarādiṣu rāśiṣv aho-rātrāṇi dīrgha-hrasva-samānāni vidhatte. ![]() Its rise towards the northern solstice, its fall towards the southern solstice, and its crossing the middle point can be known by measuring the days. Ārohaṇāvarohaṇa-samāna-sthāneṣu yathā-savanam abhipadyamāno The sun moves at varying speed between the northern solstice, southern solstice, and equinotical points. ![]() Sa eṣa udagayana-dakṣiṇāyana-vaiṣuvata-saṁjñābhir māndya-śaighrya-samānābhir gatibhir
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